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The sculpture is carved in jade, Indian chalcedony and carnelian, with gold: an octopus rising upright on its arms. The skin is worked all over in small raised bumps and mottled in red, purple and yellow, and the eyes are yellow with slit pupils. The arms curl over the rim of a green cylindrical base carved with winding ridges, the suckers showing where their tips turn up.
Materials: jade, Indian chalcedony, carnelian, gold
Dimensions: height 180 mm
The sculpture is carved in jade, Indian chalcedony and carnelian, with gold: an octopus rising upright on its arms. The skin is worked all over in small raised bumps and mottled in red, purple and yellow, and the eyes are yellow with slit pupils. The arms curl over the rim of a green cylindrical base carved with winding ridges, the suckers showing where their tips turn up.
Materials: jade, Indian chalcedony, carnelian, gold
Dimensions: height 180 mm
